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CES EduPack Editions

Flexibility is key to the CES EduPack approach. You can apply the EduPack resources to meet your own teaching needs. This is reflected in the choice available when you license the software. You can select any of nine Editions, each focused on different disciplines in engineering, science, processing, or design.

All Editions are supplied with the standard software and teaching resources. Optional data and other components are summarized below. More detail on each edition is provided below the table. For more information on the three Levels of the standard CES EduPack Materials & Processes Database, see the description of EduPack information resources.

Summary

Edition	Courses	Databases	Books & Resources
Standard	General & Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Manufacturing	Materials & Processes Levels 1-3 + Elements	Textbook: Materials or Materials Selection in Mechanical Design
Aerospace	Aerospace Engineering, Motorsports Engineering	Materials & Processes Levels 1&2 + Level 3 Aerospace + Elements + MMPDS + MIL-HDBK-17	Textbook: Materials or Materials Selection in Mechanical Design
Architecture	Architecture	Architecture + Structural Sections + Elements Database	Textbook: Materials and Design Handout: The CES EduPack database for Architecture and the Built Environment
Bio Engineering	Bio, Medical Engineering	Levels 1&2 Bio Materials + Elements	Textbook: Materials or Materials and Design White Paper: The CES EduPack Database of Natural and Man-Made Materials
Design	Industrial and Product Design	Materials & Processes Levels 1&2 + Elements	Textbook: Materials and Design Handout: Materials and Product Design
Eco Design	Eco Design, Sustainable Engineering - or any course integrating elements of these	Materials & Processes Levels 1&2 + Level 3 Eco Selector + Elements + CAMPUS Plastics	Textbook: Materials and the Environment White Papers: The CES Eco Selector - Background Reading and The CES Eco Audit Tool
Nuclear Power	Nuclear Engineering	Materials & Processes Levels 1-2 + Level 3 Nuclear Power + Elements	Textbook: Materials or Materials Selection in Mechanical Design White Paper: Materials for Nuclear Power Systems
Polymer	Polymer Science and Engineering, Advanced Industrial Design	Materials & Processes Levels 1&2 + Level 3 (enhanced) + Elements + CAMPUS Plastics + IDES Plastics + Moldflow	Textbook: Materials or Materials Selection in Mechanical Design
Sustainability & the Built Environment	Civil Engineering, Structures, Built Environment, advanced use in Architecture	Materials & Processes Levels 1&2 + Level 3 Eco Selector + Architecture + Structural Sections + Elements	Textbook: Materials or Materials and Design

Details of each edition

Standard Edition

CES EduPack Standard Edition is the core CES EduPack product. It provides:

Software for browsing, searching, and selecting materials, and the Eco Audit Tool
Information resources - three levels of the general Materials and Processes Database, plus science notes and the Elements database. The Materials and Processes database at Level 3 contains information on over 3,000 materials, including virtually all types of structural engineering material, and 230 processes.
Teaching resources
Your choice of textbook

Aerospace Edition

The edition offers specialist aerospace materials data The CES EduPack Aerospace Edition provides all of the features and data included in the Standard Edition with the addition (at Level 3) of two outstanding specialist reference data sources which allow selection projects to be carried out on material properties at user-specified temperatures.

Levels 1 - 3 of the Materials & Processes Database and the Elements Database are supplied with this edition. You also get the following.

MMPDS (Updated in EduPack 2010)

Formerly known as MIL-HDBK-5, this is a comprehensive, industrial aerospace data module
>2,000 records of statistically-derived design data for aerospace alloys
Information on the temperature dependence of mechanical properties, fatigue curves, and corrosion rankings
Contains a complete fastener database comprising over 1,000 sheet metal/fastener combinations
More information in the industrial section of this website...

MIL-HDBK-17

Contains > 1,000 records of test data polymer matrix, metal matrix, and ceramic matrix composites. It has been developed in a similar manner to the MMPDS data.
More information in the industrial section of this website...

Architecture Edition

Image taken from the Architecture database. A section of the State Center, MIT - architect Frank O. Gehry. The CES EduPack Architecture Edition provides all of the software features included in the Standard Edition but with a tailored Architecture Database instead of the standard EduPack database. It also contains a Structural Sections Database and comes with an additional student handout.

The Materials & Processes and Elements Databases are not supplied with this edition.

Architecture Database

126 architectural materials
Materials categorized into superstructure, enclosures, interiors, services
Datasheets contain images relating to architecture and the built environment
Includes data on: mechanical properties in bending, hydro-thermal props, acoustic properties and durability in various atmospheres
Science notes have been adapted to be more architecture-friendly (i.e., less fundamental materials science)

Structural Sections Database

Properties on >1800 structural sections
Includes data on Aluminum, steel, GFRP and softwood beams

Bio Engineering Edition

The Bio Engineering Edition adds data on a wide range of natural materials The CES EduPack Bio Engineering Edition provides the features and functionality included in the Standard Edition, except for the Eco Audit Tool, with the addition of a unique reference data source for natural materials and man-made bio materials.

Bio Materials Database

This database is an enhanced version of the Level 1 & 2 Materials & Processes Database, including additional materials descriptions and detailed properties for:

The basic structural building blocks of nature - proteins, polysaccharides, and minerals
Soft tissue - artery and vein, muscle, tendon, ligament, cartilage, skin, hair, hoof, horn, and tortoise shell
Mineralized tissue - dentine and enamel, bone, antler, shell, and coral
Woods and wood-like materials
Natural fibers - mammalian, insect, arachnid, stem, leaf, and seed
Man-made bio materials - metals, polymers, ceramics, and glasses

Applications

The edition enables:

Retrieval of the properties of natural and man-made materials
The construction of material property charts for natural materials
Exploration of the ways in which the basic structural building blocks of the natural world (minerals, polysaccharides and proteins) combine to give the great diversity found in bio-materials
Comparisons of the properties of natural and man-made materials, revealing their comparative efficiencies
Substitution studies exploring the potential for one to substitute for another, suggesting where man-made materials might best be used for implants and organ replacement
Bio-mimicry: designing man-made composites and structures that mimic those of the natural world

Design Edition

The CES EduPack Design Edition is a modified version of the Standard Edition.

It excludes the Level 3 data from the Materials & Process Database.

Materials and Design

It includes an instructors copy of an alternative, specialist textbook (Materials and Design - above) for product and industrial design, and some additional handout materials for design students.

The design edition helps teaching and project work on industrial design courses

Eco Design Edition

The CES EduPack Eco Design Edition provides all of the features and functionality included in the Standard Edition, including the innovative Eco Audit Tool and the standard Materials and Processes Database. But Level 3 of this database has been enhanced with additional eco-properties (to create the Eco Selector Database). The Edition also includes the CAMPUS plastics database with associated eco data. The Eco Design Edition will usually be shipped with an instructor's copy of the Materials and the Environment text from Professor Mike Ashby.

The Level 1 & 2 Materials & Processes Database and Elements Database are supplied with this Edition. You also get the following.

The Level 3 Eco Selector Database (Updated in EduPack 2010)

The standard Level 3 database is enhanced with up to 27 eco properties for each of its 3,000+ materials
This makes it equivalent to the Eco MaterialUniverse product for industry (more information)

CAMPUS Plastics (Updated in EduPack 2010)

Leading plastics reference source - see Polymer Edition, above
Includes information on energy that can be recovered by incineration

More on CES EduPack for sustainable engineering and eco design >>>

Nuclear Power Edition (New in 2010)

The edition offers specialist aerospace materials data

The CES EduPack Nuclear Power Edition provides all of the features included in the Standard Edition, with modified Level 3 and Elements databases providing more information on nuclear power systems and the materials used within them. The Edition is supported by the white paper Materials for Nuclear Power Systems.

The Level 1 & 2 Materials & Processes Database are supplied with this edition. You also get the following.

An additional data table containing information on nuclear power systems

Records contain schematics and descriptions of the main reactor types - part of a schematic is pictured

The Level 3 Nuclear Power Database

Additional records for material grades used in nuclear power systems
Material performance at elevated temperature (specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, Young’s modulus, tensile strength, yield strength)
Influence of neutron irradiation on material performance (tensile strength, thermal conductivity, Young’s modulus)
Information on materials usage in reactor systems and sub-systems

An extended Elements Database

Coverage of elements used in nuclear power system (tritium, deuterium, plutonium, thorium and uranium isotopes)
Properties relevant to nuclear power (neutron absorption cross section, neutron scattering cross section, fission cross section, binding energy per nucleon, half life)

Polymer Edition

Lego (R) - an application image from the record for ABS The CES EduPack Polymer Edition provides the features, functionality, and data included in the Standard Edition with the addition of two leading specialist reference data sources for polymeric materials. The Materials & Processes Level 3 Database has enhanced data on polymeric materials, with the addition of chemical resistance data.

The Level 1 & 2 Materials & Processes Database and Elements Database are supplied with this edition. You also get the following.

Level 3 Polymers Database

Includes the standard Level 3 database, enabling comparison of polymeric materials against metals, ceramics, and composites
Includes extra properties for over 790 types of elastomer and polymer materials
Includes chemical resistance data (ChemRes) detailing the resistance of elastomer and polymer materials to >190 different chemical and solvent environments
Equivalent to the Polymer MaterialUniverse product for industry (more information)

CAMPUS Plastics (Updated in EduPack 2010)

Commercial data module containing data on 5,800 plastic resin grades from 21 primary polymer producers
All data is measured according to strict CAMPUS ISO standards
More information in the industrial section of this website...

IDES Plastics (Updated in EduPack 2010)

Commercial data module containing data on >77,000 plastics property datasheets from over 400 manufacturers
Includes data on specialist grades
Includes most north American and European producers
More information in the industrial section of this website...

Sustainability & the Built Environment Edition

The edition helps with courses in civil engineering, structures, and the built environment The CES EduPack Sustainability & the Built Environment Edition enhances the full data set and Eco Audit Tool available in the Standard Edition with additional environmental properties, and then adds the information on construction materials and structural sections. The result is a comprehensive materials teaching resource for courses in Civil Engineering, Stuctures, the Built Environment, and for Architectural courses wishing to go into greater depth on engineering materials or environmental properties.

The Level 1 & 2 Materials & Processes Database

Provides an excellent introduction to standard engineering materials, including metals, ceramics, composites, and polymers

The Level 3 Eco Selector Database (Updated in EduPack 2010)

The standard Level 3 database is enhanced with up to 27 eco properties for each of its 3,000+ materials
This makes it equivalent to the Eco MaterialUniverse product for industry (more information)

Architecture database

126 materials for architecture and the built environment
Materials categorized into superstructure, enclosures, interiors, services
Datasheets contain images relating to the built environment
Includes data on: mechanical properties in bending, hydro-thermal props, acoustic properties and durability in various atmospheres
Science notes have been adapted to be more architecture-friendly (i.e., less fundamental materials science)

Structural Sections database

Properties on >1800 structural sections
Includes data on Aluminum, steel, GFRP and softwood beams

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